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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
First Pennsylvania politics "Axios" using three sources to say that President Trump leans towards endorsing State Senator Doug Mastriano for Governor in the Republican Primary contest next Tuesday...AXIOS...
Tonight Mastriano spoke to a campaign rally attended by hundreds of people in Lehighton in northeastern Pennsylvania...WNEP WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON
SYRIA SAYS THAT FIVE WERE KILLED AND SEVEN WOUNDED IN AN ISRAELI ATTACK THIS EVENING.
..SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY (VIDEO EMBED) (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
US DEFENSE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN SPEAKING WITH HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEVERAL MONTHS.
THE PENTAGON SAYS AUSTIN PUSHED FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN UKRAINE...CBS NEWS
Opinion polling for Australia's General Election a week from tomorrow.
This data from "Newspoll-You Gov".
It's a ranked choice system in the first preferences the Labor Party at 38 percent to 35 percent for the Liberal/National Coalition of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
11 percent choose the Greens with 7 percent supporting "Other".
Many small party anti-COVID mandate candidates fit in the "Other" category.
The Anti-Establishment parties on the "Right" also expressing opposition to COVID mandates One Nation at 6 percent and the United Australia Party at 3 percent.
After final preferences this poll gives Labor a 54 to 46 percent edge over the Liberal/National Coalition...
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL ELECTION POLLS-WIKIPEDIA...
Its Saturday in Australia this crowd in Melbourne gathered others in other Australian cities urging voters to "Sack Them All" and vote smaller parties over the three major ones (Green, Labor, Liberal-National)...VIDEO LINK
NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID-19...ONE NEWS
Other news....
IN NEW ZEALAND UPDATED 'NEW LOOK' VACCINE PASSPORTS ARE ROLLING OUT.
COVID RESPONSE MINISTER CHRIS HIPKINS URGING KIWIS TO GET THE 'OPTIONAL' VAX PASSPORTS...TV ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
LATE BREAKING NEWS:
NORTH KOREAN MEDIA SAYING 21 DIED ON FRIDAY SPEAKNG OF 280-THOUSAND PEOPLE RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR 'FEVER' AND 243-THOUSAND RECOVERED.
RULER KIM JONG-UN CHAIRING A MEETING WHERE MATTERS WERE DISCUSSED IN NORTH KOREA WHERE ITS NOW SATURDAY....KBS WORLD RADIO...
Earlier news North Korea's official government news agency saying six people have died of "fever" and nearly 190,000 are under quarantine after admitting yesterday that its first COVID-19 case had been detected...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...BBC NEWS
The White House COVID coordinator wants rapid approval from Congress of more money for vaccines and other treatments.
Dr. Ashish Jha says that unless the US moves forward with participation in new vaccines being developed it may miss out to other nations.
Jha also the US will have "more
vulnerability" to COVID by this fall...ASSOCIATED PRESS-THE HILL
PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY-GOP STAFFERS FIRED OVER APPARENT BALLOT HARVESTING OPERATION
Pennsylvania Politics two Republican staffers fired following disclosure of what appears to be a ballot harvesting operation using mail-in ballots for next Tuesday's primary...WASHINGTON EXAMINER...
More politics later in this summary from Pennsylvania and elsewhere...
FRIDAY VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL
(UPDATED)
Clashes in Israel today between soldiers and Palestinian gunmen.
The Israeli military conducting a raid in the area...TIMES OF ISRAEL...One Israeli police commando killed in the fighting.
In Jerusalem today the funeral for a Palestinian-American reporter working for Qatar-based Al Jazeera.
Shireen Abu Akleh killed earlier this week during an Israeli military operation with Israel being blamed for her killing.
Police rushed the crowd at her funeral today with the liberal "Haaretz" newspaper characterizing the situation as "police violence"
"The Times of Israel" reports that police almost knocked her casket over the police saying they were targeted with rocks.
Police blockading huge crowds from joining the funeral procession but many got through anyway...THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
MUSK SAYS TWITTER DEAL ON HOLD, TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NEVER GO BACK TO TWITTER
(UPDATED)
ELON MUSK SAYING HIS ACQUISITION OF TWITTER IS ON HOLD BUT ALSO SAYING HE IS 'COMMITTED' TO THE DEAL.
MUSK WANTING MORE DETAILS ABOUT FAKE SPAM TWITTER ACCOUNTS...BBC NEWS...
President Trump on social media tonight saying 'only a stupid person would buy Twitter at that price...Elon is not a stupid person".
Trump also noting 'he may have illegally bought those shares'.
Mr. Trump also saying he appreciates Musk's offer to return to Twitter but "I will never go back to Twitter. I love TRUTH!" referring to his own Truth Social Media...
DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA
On Wall Street today higher prices the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 466.36 points or 1.47 percent.
NASDAQ rose 434.04 points or 3.82 percent ibn value.
The price of oil rising four dollars and five cents a barrel to 110.18...MARKETWATCH
IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING IN THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND.
EVACUATIONS OF RESIDENTS UNDERWAY WITH OTHERS WARNED TO GET READY TO LEAVE...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Australia's Defense Minister Peter Dutton raising the alarm over a Chinese surveillance ship off the country' western coast.
Dutton calling it an unprecedented move.
His comments come eight days ahead of Australia's General Election with early voting underway.
The currently governing Liberal-National Coalition stressing the challenge of China in its political camapign...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA...
POLITICS USA
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS ANOTHER MINOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR PULLED THE PLUG ON HER CAMPAIGN TODAY.
FORMER PITTSBURGH AREA CONGRESSWOMAN MELISSA HART DROPPING OUT IN FAVOR OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN LOU BARLETTA.
BARLETTA NOW THE HOPE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS TO STOP STATE SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO OF FRANKLIN COUNTY LEADING THE POLLING AHEAD OF NEXT TUESDAY'S PRIMARY...(NEWS AGENCIES)
POLITICS IN MINNESOTA THE LATEST POLLING SHOWING THE REPUBLICAN WITH THE BEST CHANCE TO BEAT INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ IS DR. SCOTT JENSEN.
WALZ HOLDING A NARROW 44-39 MARGIN OVER JENSEN IN A KSTP/SURVEY USA POLL.
A FORMER STATE SENATOR JENSEN IS AN OUTSPOKEN OPPONENT OF THE COVID POLICIES OF WALZ...DR. SCOTT JENSEN CAMPAIGN SITE...REAL CLEAR POLITICS POLLS
RUSSIAN FOREIGN SERGEI LAVROV TALKING STABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN SAYING THAT RUSSIA AND CHINA WANT AN INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT THERE.
LAVROV SPEAKING IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN NATION OF TAJIKISTAN NEIGHBORING AFGHANISTANURGING THAT COUNTRY TO USE ITS INFLUENCE WITH THE TALIBAN....TASS RUSSIA
In Latvia parliamentary approval of a law to allow removal of a statue honoring Soviet soldiers from World War II.
Authorities banning protest by ethnic Russians in Latvia against the new law with some protesters who showed up anyway arrested...TASS RUSSIA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
TURKISH RULER ERDOGAN BLASTS FINLAND AND SWEDEN NATO MEMBERSHIP
TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED
BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan coming out against Finland and Sweden joining NATO of which Turkey is already a member.
Erdogan saying the two Scandanavian countries host Kurdish groups Turkey considers "terrorist".
Finland already committing to NATO membership and Sweden expected to follow in what are seen as moves to increase pressure on Russia over Ukraine...REUTERS
In other news...
THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF SRI LANKA SAYS THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN HIS COUNTRY WILL:
'get worse before it gets better'...
BBC NEWS
The FBI wrote to Israel's government in 2018 saying it intended to use the Israeli made Pegasus phone hacking software.
The agency told the Israelis it wanted to collect phone data in ongoing investigations mentioning 'prevention and investigation of crimes and terrorism'.
The report from the "New York Times" pointing to the notion that the FBI conducted tests but 'likely' did not use the software...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The House Democrat controlled January 6th Committee issuing subpoenas to five Republicans in the House.
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy along with Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama...NEW YORK POST
In Germany the "Office for the Protection of the Constitution" touting evidence pointing to 300 members of the police, military and intelligence services being "right-wing extremists" or "Reich citizens"...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
That's the way it really is Friday May 13th, 2022 Day 788 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 788 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots and runaway inflation.
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